The first in a series of essay I'll be writing for The House of Yoga on the poetry and Buddhism. Kicking off with Mary Oliver's 'in blackwater woods' and the Four Noble Truths.The first in a series of essay I'll be writing for The House of Yoga on the poetry and Buddhism. Kicking off with Mary Oliver's 'in blackwater woods' and the Four Noble Truths.

We are born alone and die alone. We need to understand aloneness. We aren’t even two minutes into our weekend program. I instantly fall for this woman-teacher looking like a combination of Martha Stewart and Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.